Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of frantic pondering and frantic discussion in Washington. Some of the suggestions were ludicrous: cut off all aid to Diem (which would effectively hand the country to the Communists); run the Seventh Fleet up to the coast and force Diem out of power (also senseless, since no suitable successor was visible). No one seemed to be discussing perhaps the most sensible solution of all: stop all the halfway hints of encouragement to promoters of a coup d'état, and get on with the difficult and unpalatable task of working with Ngo Dinh Diem and his family...
...term in office. Perhaps it was to devote more time to his key job as head of the party. Or was he preparing an orderly transition for his successor...
...deep is the cleavage between China and the Soviet Union that it could hardly be resolved except by the death or disappearance of either Mao or Khrushchev. But, after Mao, who? The immediate successor is almost certain to be Liu Shao-chi. the party's No. 2 man. After that, it is anyone's guess. Comments a China expert: "From the outside, one can see the forces that must, or should be, coming to grips in the arena of China's internal power struggle. But we can only see these forces intellectually and, I repeat, from...
...invited every day?' " Pharmacy of the World. Since its founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer began setting up aniline plants from Albany, N.Y., to Moscow. Friedrich Bayer's successor, Chemist Carl Duisberg, transformed the company's dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg...
...most likely to head the new company is Shinzo Fujii, 70, the president of Shin Mitsubishi, the biggest and financially strongest of the three firms. An even-tempered but forceful businessman, Fujii took over the reins of his company once more after a hand-picked successor died, would probably stay on just long enough to get the new company going strong. Unlike the old zaibatsu, whose power extended deeply into politics and military policy, today's zaibatsu seem interested mostly in good management, efficiency and profit. Once he sees that the new giant is well equipped with all three...